The one thing I know now is that life is a precious, precious gift from God that we must do all to live, safeguard and treasure. Our life does not …
Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku
Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku
Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku, freelance journalist, runs a private media outfit, Bob MajiriOghene Communications, Abuja. He received training in ECOWAS institutions in Accra, Ghana and in environmental journalism by the International Institute for Journalism, IIJ of InWent, Berlin Germany all in 2008. Bob is the author of Deep Sighs, Tears for A Birthday & other poems, Secrets of a Diary, SAT/TOEFL Essays: lesson notes questions & answers, and has concluded the draft of a children's book, Mamud & the Moringa Tree in August 2013. Other manuscripts he is working on include HOLY LIES, (a play), Once upon a Dog and Other Stories, and I WANT TO LICK MY UKODO & OTHER POEMS. He lives in Abuja, Nigeria and is facilitator for the prose fiction module for the monthly writing workshops organised by the Abuja Writers Forum, AWF. His opinion pieces have been published by Nigerian newspapers like Vanguard, ThisDay, Daily Independent, The Guardian of Nigeria, and by international publications like Equatorial Press, YahooVoices and in a German periodical, KULTURAUSTAUSCH. He can be reached on 08156171133 - majirioghene@yahoo.com. Visit his blog.
-
-
As the days turn into weeks and as the weeks turn into months, inexorably dragging us all to the semi-evil days of Nigeria’s election in April, it is not a …
-
The period of gunboat and bazooka diplomacy died a dishonourable death a long, long time ago with Lord Palmerston, Otto Von Bismarck and Adolf Hitler. Today’s wars are usually wars …
-
One of the reasons that one can safely adduce for the seeming numbness and complacency of the elite, the hoi polloi and the international community against the oppressive tendencies of …
-
The sun has arisen daily from the East and has set in the West since the turn of the century bringing with it a lot of changes, but the poor …
-
Tell you what…the man who has been picked as the PDP presidential candidate is really no different from the Shehu Shagari of our Second Republic…
-
I was military president. I ruled as a dictator and what you must understand then was that I was accountable to myself and not to any House of Representatives or …
-
A ‘good’ political record is a relative item and term that can be bought and sold in the supermarket of politics. The good records that these presidential aspirants parade is …
-
To the honorable members of the Edo State House of Assembly: it does not give me any pleasure to write these lines to you. What I have to say to you …
-
Life is a journey. And all of the men and women who traverse its length and breadth are merely sojourners…
-
My colleague says no matter the political and historical and economic value that his sweetheart’s name may bring to his life, he would not allow his wife to keep her daddy’s …
-
Part of the reason why a lot of my sisters are not married and are unlikely to find that Mr. Right who would occupy that special place they have reserved …
-
Let us make it categorically clear to the exponent of power shift to the North that the people of the Niger-Delta as well as other stakeholders in this country were …
-
There is a vital factor that makes any election credible and that one factor is that whatever it is that is put on ground to make that election credible must …
-
I don’t think it is out of place for us to concede that a woman’s brain is not an organ of her sex. If we keep saying that women are weak …
-
The way it is today, if we impeach a governor because he refuses to dance to the familiar song of a godfather or that he is not our party man, …